Fintan Walsh’s new anthology begins with a line that seems in danger of subverting the rest of the book. “There is strength
in numbers, so they say,” writes Frank McGuinness in his foreword – before adding “I’ve never ...

In 1996, The Quiet Man topped an Irish Times poll for the best Irish film of all time. Almost ten years later, with many more Irish (and Irish-themed) films made, The Quiet Man still occupied number four in a poll of 10,000 ...

Ossian Online is a
project which will harness social media and new reading technologies to
crowdsource annotations to the sequence of eighteenth-century works known
collectively as the Ossian poems. The
project will ...

The impact of globalisation on Irish theatre since the early 1990s has been considerable. A study of four recent Irish plays, all produced by "regional" theatre companies, suggests that contemporary Irish theatre is dominated ...

An early shot in Mark Cousin's I am Belfast lingers on a very unusual and unexpected landscape, what appears to be an icy vista reflected in water, with clouds drifting by in the distance. Where s this our narrator asks. ...

Review of one of the most provocative Irish short films in recent years, a work that manages not just to reference acclaimed playwright and director Martin McDonagh’s major influences but also provides a commentary on ...